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| 1982 Barnett, Richard 8-31-1982; Idaho County | |
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| ELL | Jul 6 2006, 09:53 PM Post #1 |
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AGE PROGRESSION PIC: http://www.isp.state.id.us/mp_viewer/showM...n?id=M090053509 RICHARD RAY BARNETT LAST DATE OF CONTACT : 08/31/1982 DOB : 11/26/1979 HEIGHT : 2'06" GENDER : MALE WEIGHT : 32 lbs HAIR COLOR : BROWN EYE COLOR : BROWN RACE : WHITE CASE INFORMATION : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBJECT WAS LAST SEEN WEARING RED AND BLUE COVERALLS AND COWBOY BOOTS. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PERSON PLEASE CONTACT : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IDAHO CO SO 208 983-1100 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 22 2007, 10:19 PM Post #2 |
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http://charleyproject.org/cases/b/barnett_richard.html Richard Ray Barnett Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: August 31, 1982 from Grangeville, Idaho Classification: Non-Family Abduction Date Of Birth: November 26, 1979 Age: 2 years old Height and Weight: 3'0, 32 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Caucasian male. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Barnett has a hairline scar over his left eye and a mark below that eye. His nickname is Ricky. Some agencies list Barnett's eye color as brown. Clothing/Jewelry Description: Red and blue coveralls, a pajama top and cowboy boots. Medical Conditions: Barnett had hip braces on both legs to correct a bowlegged condition; the braces were removed six months prior to his disappearance. Details of Disappearance Barnett was last seen visiting his paternal grandparents' home on August 31, 1982. They lived on Hillcrest Farms, a chicken farm in the Grangeville, Idaho area. The farm was seven miles north of Grangeville encompassed several hundred acres. Barnett apparently wandered away from the residence sometime during the day and has not been seen again. Extensive searches yielded few clues as to his whereabouts. Barnett's grandparents were suspected in his disappearance for almost two decades afterward. His grandmother agreed to a polygraph exam in May 2001 and passed; she was cleared of an involvement in his case as a result. Barnett's grandfather also agreed to take a polygraph, but he died before the exam was scheduled. Barnett's parents live in Oregon and his mother has been active in the search for him. His disappearance remains unsolved. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Idaho County Sheriff's Department 208-983-1100 Source Information The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children Child Protection Education Of America Operation Lookout The Lewiston Morning Tribune |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 22 2007, 10:22 PM Post #3 |
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| ELL | Oct 31 2008, 10:43 AM Post #4 |
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Idaho detectives look to solve missing child case Posted: Oct 30, 2008 10:27 PM CDT Updated: Oct 31, 2008 01:41 AM CDT Story by: Annie Bishop / KXLY4 Reporter GRANGEVILLE, Idaho -- It's a mystery deeper than the canyons on the edge of a small Idaho town. In 1982, two-and-a-half year old Ricky Barnett disappeared from a ranch just outside of Grangeville, Idaho. Now, more than two decades later, his case remains open and very much active. Old photographs are the only images Ricky Barnett's mom has of her little boy. Outdated images of a boy who today would be going on 29-years-old. So what happened to Ricky? It's a question so many have spent the past 26 years trying to answer. With his deep brown eyes and the innocent smile of a toddler, Ricky had the face of an angel. "To me he was special," said the boy's mother Judy Barnet. "I had other kids, but he was a special one." This angelic face, turned into the face of a missing boy. "Someone knows what happened to him," said Idaho County Sheriff's Detective Joan Renshaw. From Main street, to the grain silos dotting the endless farm country of Idaho County, Ricky's mystery lingers over the small town of Grangeville like a cold fall day. "How could a kid disappear from this town?" asked Judy. Bartlett remembers August 31st, 1982, It was the day her life was forever changed. Ricky, her youngest boy, was visiting his grandparents as they worked at a bird farm. Ricky was playing as dozens of workers scrambled to unload a delivery. "The last time they saw him, one of the uncles saw him sitting out front on one of the barns on a wagon," said Renshaw. Within 15 minutes, Ricky was gone. "I think I started screaming," said Judy "I'm not sure, I was panicking, I was screaming didn't know what to do." Hundreds of people helped in the search, draining ponds, manure pits and grain silos. Searchers even moved hay stacks looking for any sign of the little boy. "There were airplanes in the sky, everyone was looking for this little boy," said Renshaw. Rescue crews and volunteers were frustrated about the lack of results the search was turning up. "It was just confusion out here, there was a lot of people here," said searcher Carl Clemons. "I just went out with one of the groups just hunting all over the place." Bloodhounds were even brought in to trace Ricky's scent. The dogs traced his scent to a fence line on the northwest part of the property. That's where Ricky's scent literally disappeared. "We never found any sign of him," said Clemons. Not a shoe, nor piece of clothing, not even a hair. "It was just as if he just disappeared into thin air," said Renshaw. The intense search lasted for four days. When it came to a suspect all fingers first pointed to Ricky's grandmother. "They felt the grandmother acted maybe inappropriate at the time," said Renshaw. "They felt she would've had reason not to want Ricky to go back to his mother." The boy's grandmother took a polygraph test and failed. She was never arrested. Decades passed and nothing, no leads, no Ricky. Detective Renshaw picked up the now cold case in 1993. "I have to find the person that knows something," she said. A few years ago, hoping for closure, Detective Renshaw gave Ricky's grandmother another polygraph test. She passed that test and is now no longer a suspect. "Every time I clear someone I go to the next person on the list that was there and I go through everybody's interviews," said Renshaw. She has a list of 35 potential suspects, half of them have been cleared. Over the years, the evidence has piled up in a vault in the basement of the Idaho County Sheriff's Department. More evidence than answers. But a mother's love helps Judy hang onto the notion that Ricky is still alive. "I think that he was taken off the ranch and given to somebody to be raised by someone besides me," she said. Despite all the evidence and no clear leads, Renshaw has not lost hope in solving the case. "I hope that her motherly instinct is correct and that we find him alive and well," she said. Then two years ago a major breakthrough came via phone call. Detective Renshaw received a call from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Thanks to that call she spoke with a boy in South Dakota. "He's like, 'I don't know if I'm Ricky or not but I've had some flashbacks of my childhood and I don't have memories of some things, I'm not real certain I am who I am'," Renshaw recalled the conversation. The baby photos of both boys were almost identical. Judy thought her prayers had finally been answered. But DNA tests revealed the young man was not Ricky. The news was devastating. "It was like losing him all over again," she said. Detective Renshaw never met Ricky, but his life is now her life's work. "It's very important, this is a child," she exclaimed. Detective Renshaw is oftend faced with the question of why she keeps searching, even after all this time? "Why not?," she said. "He's missing... we can't close it, that's failure. I would never ever close a case just because I hope if I don't find the missing child I hope whoever picks up my job continues." It's that hope that links an Idaho County detective with a waiting mother. "I hope I will see him again," said Judy. And if she doesn't, if he's no longer alive, Judy will at least have closure. "I'll know and I wont have to look anymore," she said. She just wants an answer, an answer about why she stopped living 26 years ago. "There are so many ups and so many downs," she lamented. She often wonders what her little boy would look like now, if he would still have that innocent smile, if he could he still make her laugh. Digitally progressed pictures shows what Ricky would look like at age 26. It's a face of missing boy, now a man. A face Judy hopes those in Grangeville and across the northwest will never forget. "People want to know, I want to know, I need to know," said Judy. Just recently, Detective Renshaw was in the process of following up a significant lead, the ex-wife of a potential suspect. It's rumored that the woman doesn't know what happened that day. Renshaw continues to work down the list, hoping she'll find someone who knows something. http://www.kxly.com/Global/story.asp?S=9270633 |
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| ELL | Oct 31 2008, 10:59 AM Post #5 |
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interesting video of this case: http://www.kxly.com/global/video/flash/pop...fo&rnd=37039747 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Nov 27 2008, 10:42 PM Post #6 |
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http://www.argusobserver.com/articles/2008...63047146476.txt Police wait for hot tips on cold cases By BRAD W. GARY Lewiston Tribune Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:45 PM PDT Barry Kough | The Lewiston Tribune, AP Lewiston Police evidence officer Brian Birdsell keeps track of row after row of boxes full of evidence in the secure basement of the Lewiston Police Dept. LEWISTON (AP) — The black binders are loaded with notes, and visible to anyone who peeks inside Lt. Alan Johnson’s office. Those neatly kept files, with both typed and hand-scrawled notes related to five unsolved murders, will remain in Johnson’s care until he walks out the door of the Lewiston Police Department for good. He’s not the first officer to investigate the cases, but Johnson hopes to be the last. His department reopened a series of murder cases in 1997, continuing an already decades-old investigation into the deaths of Christina White, Kristin David, Steven R. Pearsall, Kristina D. Nelson and Jacqueline (Brandy) A. Miller from 1979 to 1982. Investigators at the time believed all five cases involved the same ‘‘person of interest.’’ No arrest has ever been made. ‘‘You’re always hoping to find that one piece of evidence that either puts it over the top or identifies the criminal suspect, or provides closure to the family,’’ Johnson said. ADVERTISEMENT They aren’t the only unsolved murders in Lewiston. And Johnson’s list isn’t the only one that has aged in the depths of detective offices around the region. As many as 19 suspected homicide cases, going back to 1961, remain unresolved in southeast Washington and north central Idaho. Police suspect homicide in many of the cases, even when a person is still legally declared missing. Bodies of others have turned up years after the initial reports were made. ‘‘It’s really important that these folks are not forgotten,’’ said Nez Perce County Chief Deputy Bill Madison. He has two cases on his department’s evidence shelf. Johnson admits the days in which new notes are added to his binders have winnowed. Working a two-decades-old murder case can often lead to dead ends, detectives say. ‘‘It’s true — 48 hours are the most critical hours in a homicide, witness interviews, that’s when the information is going to be at its best,’’ Johnson said. But the boxes of evidence have swelled since he took on the investigation that began when 12-year-old White disappeared from the Asotin County Fair on April 28, 1979. In June 1981, David, 22, was last seen riding her bicycle from Moscow to Lewiston. Her remains were found dismembered in the Snake River days later, and no killer has been found. And in September 1982, Nelson, 21, Miller, 18, and Pearsall, 35, disappeared from the Lewiston Civic Theatre. Nelson and Miller’s bodies turned up two years later at the bottom of a hillside near Kendrick. Pearsall has never been found, but police suspect him to be a victim in the case. Witness memories fade over time, and family member addresses spiderweb across the country. Some interviews are now conducted by phone, Johnson said. Decades-old cases often don’t get the resources of a full-time detective, and often take years to work through. That is why former Lewiston Police Chief Jack Baldwin made contact with a group of retired detectives in 1997. Then living in northern Idaho’s Kootenai County, the retired Los Angeles-area officers had formed a group to aid peace officers in their investigations. Officers Without Legal Standing, as the group is called, looked over the Civic Theatre murders and White’s disappearance. It was the only such instance Johnson can remember his department sharing an investigation with an outside agency. Tom Johnston, a retired lieutenant from Los Angeles County, was the lead on that investigation, Johnson said. ‘‘In his opinion, the investigations were looking at the right individual,’’ Johnson said. That individual is the ‘‘person of interest’’ in both cases, and the case of David, he said. That person of interest has never been named publicly, Johnson said. While not officially classifying the man as a suspect, Johnson said there were inconsistencies in his statements to investigators. ‘‘That is why he has never been removed as a person of interest in our case,’’ Johnson said. ‘‘He was also one of the last individuals to be seen with Christina White.’’ He was later one of the last to be seen at the Civic Theatre before Nelson, Miller and Pearsall disappeared. David’s case was eventually taken over by the FBI, Johnson said, primarily because of the jurisdictional issues regarding her disappearance and subsequent discovery. Follow-up interviews suggested by the law enforcement group led to the use of cadaver dogs, and excavation of separate sites in Asotin and Clarkston. The city contracted with a geophysics expert to conduct ground-penetrating radar at a few locations. ‘‘There was never any physical evidence recovered at any of the sites,’’ Johnson said. Their efforts left the murder investigation open for eight years. Investigative efforts continued intermittently until 2007. The cases were reopened without much fanfare — the same as many investigations throughout the region. Unsolved cases are periodically reviewed by the region’s detectives in an effort to find any potential information. Idaho County sheriff’s Capt. Skott Mealer brought in the help of the state police, FBI and even psychics in efforts to help detectives solve the murders of Lynn and C. Bruce Peeples. The Grangeville couple was found strangled in their burned home on April 1, 1994. Mealer said he’s still collecting pieces of a puzzle that could one day lead to a resolution in the case. ‘‘There are victims out there, and we have an obligation to do our job,’’ Mealer said. The Peeples homicide is routinely investigated, he said, as is the 1982 disappearance of 2-year-old Ricky Barnett, who was visiting his grandparents near Grangeville. ‘‘Every time we have something new we check it,’’ he said, noting calls do come in occasionally on both cases. Sgt. Earl Aston also gets calls about missing persons. The Latah County Sheriff’s Office detective is trying to find Gayla Schaper, a 27-year-old who was last seen feeding her horses on Lenville Road, southeast of Moscow, in June 1979. Clothing was later discovered in a nearby meadow, but Schaper has never been found. Whenever an unidentified person is discovered that could match Schaper, a description is sent to the sheriff’s office for review, he said. ‘‘Generally it happens less and less frequently,’’ Aston said. ‘‘It can go in spurts, you might get a few inquiries, or you might get a few pieces of information.’’ As time passes, the frequency of inquiries lessen. An inability to give closure to the families can also be difficult, Aston said. ‘‘You try to think what it would be like for you if you were in their shoes,’’ Aston said. ‘‘I think it would be extremely difficult. Hopefully it gets dulled by time, but I don’t know.’’ In Pullman, Police Chief Ted Weatherly said the investigation of a 2004 serial rapist has run cold. Police have collected DNA from three suspected rapes in the city, and a warrant has been issued using the DNA signature absent a name. A suspect has not been identified, but may if the DNA ever gets a hit on national databases. While DNA has proved a useful tool for today’s homicide investigations, it might have to be ruled out in cases opened at a time when detectives never thought of collecting such evidence. Prior to DNA’s commonplace role in investigations, many detectives didn’t seek it out as evidence that would be material to their case. Some evidence has been destroyed over the years, Johnson said, while other DNA evidence was just never collected. ‘‘At the time the evidence was processed, people didn’t know about DNA, and you can’t make up 15, 20 years later, and can’t anticipate what to do 15, 20 years later,’’ he said. But departments do keep the evidence they have, Johnson said. Laws require police to maintain evidence in a murder until either the perpetrator has served his sentence, or dies. Investigative reports into the Civic Theatre murders have swelled into three binders of reports and notes, each three inches thick. The David case consists of two such binders. Boxes of evidence from the crimes fill shelves in the department’s basement. ‘‘They are inactive,’’ Johnson said, a labeling that allows a case to be reopened but in which no current leads are being explored. When new information does come in, it typically passes over Johnson’s desk. And new leads often aren’t publicized, in part to keep family members from building anticipation in the event detectives come up empty handed. Detectives say they also don’t want to ruin a criminal case, and note that same feeling of cracking a case often ebbs and flows among themselves. ‘‘You get that anticipation or that feeling that something’s going to happen, that’s going to clobber this,’’ Johnson said. ‘‘That doesn’t happen, so it goes back to inactive status. It’s disappointing, frustrating.’’ Still, investigations continue, but slowly. Johnson said those efforts will continue even after he leaves his office. ‘‘If and when I leave, somebody will inherit these books,’’ he said. But he likes to think the murders will be solved before then. ——— Information from: Lewiston Tribune, http://www.lmtribune.com |
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| PorchlightUSA | May 25 2010, 08:39 AM Post #7 |
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Idaho County Sheriff's Department Detective Joan Renshaw 208-983-1100 You may remain anonymous when submitting information. Agency Case Number: 17182 NCMEC Number: NCMC600215 NCIC Number: M-090053509 |
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| oldies4mari2004 | Apr 29 2011, 05:20 PM Post #8 |
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Missing since August 31, 1982 from Grangeville, Idaho County, Idaho. Classification: Non-Family Abduction Date Of Birth: November 26, 1979 Age at Time of Disappearance: 2 years old Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 2'6; 32 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Dark brown straight hair; hazel/brown eyes. Marks, Scars: Barnett has a hairline scar over and a mark under his left eye. He wore hip braces on both legs to correct a bowlegged condition; the braces had been removed for six months prior to his disappearance. Clothing: Red and blue coveralls; cowboy boots; and a pajama top. DNA: Available AKA: Ricky Barnett was visiting his grandmother's home, a dairy farm, when he apparently wandered away from the property. The sheriff's office utilized search teams and bloodhounds; no trace of the child could be located. Barnett has never been seen or heard from again. If you have any information concerning Barnett's case, please contact: Idaho County Sheriff's Department Detective Joan Renshaw 208-983-1100 You may remain anonymous when submitting information. Agency Case Number: 17182 NCMEC Number: NCMC600215 NCIC Number: M-090053509 The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children Idaho Missing Persons Clearinghouse Operation Lookout |
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